Taco Libre

The Monkey goes Mexican this March. We are celebratting the Taco Libre Festival by Monkey Bar, Calcutta's hot and popping gastropub, where the only complain this city has is that they never get place. BlabberCat went on a taco tasting spree and here's the selection of the taco menu - the Sausage & Pulled Pork Taco with Bacon, Spicy Barbeque Sauce, Red cabbage, pico de gallo, avocado and pork scratchings, Beer Can Chicken with shredded chicken, sweet Peppers, Crumbled Cottage Cheese, Jalapeno Hot sauce, Mushroom, Bean & Corn with Chipotle Mayo, bell pepper, Sour Cream, Jalapeno, Cheddar and more. For dessert we have our special Banoffee Taco – pancake taco shell with spiced dulce-de leche pastry cream, peanut praline, caramelized bananas, vanilla cream sprinkled with coffee and chocolate crumble. This is not it, Monkey Bar will have thumping Latino music all throughout the festival that will tempt you to show off those sexy salsa moves.But hurry up, the festival is only on till March 31st.

But our top three favourites are:

Blackened Cajun Style Shrimp – Charred Pineapple salsa, Paprika Mayo,

Fried Fish Tacos - Beer batter and the neutral chili and garlic flavor of an Asian-style chili sauce are all the reasons for it's popularity.

Mumbai Breakfast Taco - A change in taste for us in Calcutta to have Taco the Maharashtrian style.

With this we are also excited to announc that Monkey Bar is now open for lunch.

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